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Eight men have been arrested after a gang of protesters stormed the Azerbaijani embassy in London.
Footage on social media showed men waving flags from the balcony of the country’s base in Kensington.
Slogans in Arabic have been daubed on the wall and the Azerbaijani flag was taken down.
It’s unclear what sparked the protest but it was led by a group called The Mahdi Servants Union.
It is a Shia Muslim organisation based in London which says it wants to establish ‘civilisational dominance’ on its website.
Its leader Yasser Al-Habib is a controversial cleric whose film The Lady Of Heaven had to be pulled from UK cinemas earlier this year after protests from some Sunni Muslims offended by its interpretation of Islamic history.